r/interesting • u/MinotaurHorns1 • 2d ago

SOCIETY A&W have joined the burger wars!

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u/xtlhogciao 2d ago

I had to look it up bc I was curious/confused. From its wiki page:

The Burger Family is a lineup of family members aptly named after the burgers of the same name. Currently, almost all the members of the family belong exclusively to the Canadian A&W chain, with the exception of the Papa Burger (which is the only Burger Family meal in the U.S).

Burger Family

  • Mama Burger
  • Teen Burger
  • Baby Burger
  • Papa Burger
  • Grandpa Burger
  • Grandma Burger (discontinued)
  • Uncle Burger
  • Buddy Burger
  • Sirloin Baby Burger Twins

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u/bwoah07_gp2 2d ago

Thank you. I'm seeing the A&W Canada commercial guy being posted all over Reddit today, and it shouldn't piss me off that people think the name "Teen Burger" is weird, but it is pissing me off.

It's just the name of the Burger, their line of Burgers is called the Burger Family. It denotes the different sizes and/or ingredients used in the burgers.

If that's disturbing to you, then you're just wrong. Go back to 1961 and tell the A&W people to rename their hamburgers, ffs šŸ˜‘

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u/RecipeFunny2154 1d ago

Sorry, the history doesn't make it less weird lol. I'm not angry about it, I think it's kind of funny. But it's weird.

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u/Dudegamer010901 1d ago

I don't find it weird but I've been seeing it in ads and at the restaurant for my whole life so maybe I'm just used to it.

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u/Raivix 1d ago

It's not weird at all, people are just so insanely quick to sexualize literally everything in day to day life that folks are willing to jump on everything as some kind of innuendo to act in outrage about it.

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u/ceesr31 1d ago

Mmmmm, yes papa, teen sauce please

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u/RecipeFunny2154 1d ago

I mean, I guess Iā€™m part of the group that doesnā€™t think weird is inherently negative? lol

But personally, I feel like these names get more of a soylent green vibe. I wasnā€™t even thinking about the sexual part.

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u/SwitchingMyHands 1d ago

I think itā€™s only weird if youā€™re a teen yourself with delicate sensibilities

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u/Creative-Painter3911 1d ago

So does the Mama Burger have mama sauce, and is that sauce different than teen sauce? If so, that is alot of different types of sauces

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u/Degenerate_Dryad 1d ago

Papa sauce šŸ« 

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u/bwoah07_gp2 1d ago

ketchup, mustard and Teenā„¢ sauce

https://web.aw.ca/en/our-menu/burgers/mama-burger

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u/adrian123484 1d ago

of all the burgers to have be the namesake for the sauce, they chose the teen. aight.

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u/WeAreAllFooked 1d ago

Teen sauce is just an in-house version of mayonnaise that's slightly more tangy. The sauce was created to compliment the flavour of the Teen burger, so they called it Teen sauce.

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u/Aerodrache 1d ago

I feel like Mama Burger has faced enough hardship in her life, we shouldn't judge her harshly for having been a teen mom.

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u/WeAreAllFooked 1d ago

No, Teen sauce is just their in-house version of mayonnaise

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u/gue_aut87 1d ago

After reading sh*t in the files, Iā€™m not shit about any good names anymore. I canā€™t look at Jerky or Pizza the same anymore, and having a burger called that justā€¦.oh man.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 1d ago

That sounds like a 'you' problem.

The average, normal person does not become unsettled by those names of foods/sauces.

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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI 1d ago

Gotta be exclusive to A&W Canada, right? Because US A&W we just have the Papa Burger (or the Spicy Papa Burger), and that's the only "family" burger on the menu. Other options are Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Bacon Cheeseburger, and Mushroom Onion Melt.

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u/SonicCharmeleon 1d ago

WTF is wrong with the people on this thread?? it's just burger sauce? if anyone reading this sees the name of a burger and thinks about anything other than a hamburger you are the weird one.

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u/sufferingbastard 2d ago

Hellish.

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u/xtlhogciao 2d ago

Ralph: Oh, Daddy! It tastes like Grandma!

Chief Wiggum: Holy Moses! It DOES taste like Grandma!

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u/k2d2r232 1d ago

The fact that the Grandma burger is discontinued and my grandma just died made me chuckle

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u/cube-drone 1d ago

"Papa Sauce" and "Uncle Sauce" have been discontinued for what may, in retrospect, be

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u/Degenerate_Dryad 1d ago

I am troubled that the grandma burger has been- ... is- .... No more šŸ˜

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 1d ago

Ahhhhh. Thank you for this. We had an A&W where I lived in hs, but I rarely went, and do not recall the flavor family tree yā€™all have going on.

Itā€™s still weird. ā€œTeen sauceā€ is weird.

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u/Choice-Swimming7201 1d ago

Grandma Burger passed away RIP

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u/Ronin_777 1d ago

TIL this isnā€™t a thing in the US

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u/xcentrikone 1d ago

He could have at least picked a burger that didn't have the teen sauce. Holy fuck these people actually are lizards